Pac-Man SDL

Concept

Inspired by Pac-Man Arrangment. Local Multiplayer with friends.

Controls

Keyboard

• Arrow Keys to move
• Hold Z to charge dash
  • Release to dash
• Press B to disable Debug Visuals
• Enter/Return = OK

Controller

• D-Pad to move
• Hold X (XBox) to charge dash
• A = OK

Editing and Modifying

Editing of the game is done in 2 main ways:

• Editing via the tilemap editor GUI
• Editing via text config files

As of right now, both are required for editing.

Scopes:

• Level: Configures individual level
• Global: Configures entire game

Tilemap Editor

Scope: Level

Controls

• S: Save
• L: Load
• W: Wall placement mode
• T: Tile placement mode
• G: Ghost Pen placement mode
• P: Pac-Man Starting tile placement mode
• D: Pac-Dot placement mode
• E: Power Pellet (Energizer pellet) placement mode. Max 4.
• V: Very Slow tile placement mode ( Ghosts move slow on these tiles ). Max 20
• Arrow keys: Move map
• LMB: Select tile from tile selection panel in Tile Mode. Place object on tilemap ( depends on mode ).
• RMB: Remove object from tilemap ( depends on mode ).

Level Selection

Edit the res/tilemap_editor_level file to contain the level number to edit. Whatever number is in this file is the level that the tilemap editor will edit upon launching. To edit a different level, close the program, edit the file, save, and then relaunch.

Create the corresponsding res/levels/level# directory of the level to edit if the level does not exist yet. Substitute # for the level number

Text file editing

Animated Sprites

• Scope: Global
• File: res/animated_sprites

Default Speed

• Scope: Global
• File: res/default_pac_speed
• Controls the 100% speed of entities in the game. ( speed multiplier of x1)
  • Pac-Man is set to x1 ( 100% )
  • Ghosts are normally at x0.85 ( 85% )
  • Vulnerable ghosts are x0.60
  • Ghosts travelling through tunnels are x0.60
  • Other factors can effect the speed multiplier
• Think of this as a "base speed" that mulitpliers are added to for various factors and gameplay elements
• Adjusting this will change the speed and flow of the game

Ghost Mode Times

• Scope: Level
• File: res/levels/level#/ghost_mode_times
• For every level, you can set how long (in seconds) the ghosts should remain in their scatter or chase periods
• There are a total of nine periods
• Scatter, chase, scatter, chase, ... and so on
• Seperate period lengths by spaces
• Example: 7 20 7 20 7 20 5 5 5

Global Texture Atlases

• Scope: Global
• File: res/texture_atlases
• These are global texture atlases ( AKA sprite sheets ) that are available by any file including render.h
• These are texture atlases intended to be used throughout the entire game.
• The rows and cols should be specified so that the sprite clips will be broken up appropriately
• At each texture atlas specified, it will be assigned an incrementing ID from 0, 1, 2, ... and so on. This ID is to be referenced in other places where specifying what texture atlas to use. For example, in res/animated_sprites. By specifying the ID here, you are telling the animated sprite to point to that texture atlas.

Building

Linux:

• For development, one can use the Makefile
• Required libs:
  • libSDL2, libSDL2_image, libSDL2_ttf, libSDL2_mixer (install through your distribution's package manager)
• Run the linux scripts for building a distributable version. The chosen file format is AppImage.
• Required tools for scripts provided (For building a distributable):
  • linuxdeploy
    • Helps build the AppDir and gather library dependencies from your system
  • AppImageToolkit
    • Converts the AppDir into an AppImage

Windows:

• Required libs:
  • libSDL2, libSDL2_image, libSDL2_ttf, libSDL2_mixer (install from whatever website hosts these for windows builds)
• Can use the windows scripts to build a distributable

Credits

• Programming:
  • John Blat
• Art:
  • Stephen Bath
  • Colton Powell
• Music:

  • ⚠️ If you are going to use or distribute the music: Contact the artists for permission!

  • Rock Paper Funk Take Off by Broken Groove
  • Don't Worry We've Got Warp Speed by Broken Groove
  • Trust Relax Autopilot by Broken Groove
  • Tropical Climate in the Control Room by Broken Groove
  • DisFunkTional by ThatAndyGuy
  • Flyin Eggs in those Treetops by TeraVex
  • Optionstest ( Main menu music ) by Colonel Sandwich